03953nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-68873-7 DE-He213 20251030113244.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241025s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031688737 978-3-031-68873-7 10.1007/978-3-031-68873-7 doi P99.4.I58 DSA bicssc LIT006000 bisacsh DSA thema Mantzaris, Thomas. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 86578 Multimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction [electronic resource] : Design and Experimentation in North and Central American Texts / by Thomas Mantzaris. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 199 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Relaunching the Print Novel: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Print Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close -- Chapter 4. Layering the Print Novel: Handwriting and Material Artifacts in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S -- Chapter 5. Crafting the Print Novel: Book Design and Narrative Content in Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel -- Chapter 6. Archiving the Print Novel: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive -- Chapter 7. Epilogue. This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content. Examining five North and Central American novels from the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this study draws attention to texts that combine verbal text (writing) with non-verbal elements (photographic images, varied typography, maps, color, etc.) as integral parts of their narratives. Their experimentation both reconfigures the potential for print-based (and born-digital) fiction in the future, and holds a mirror to past practices of design and typography that were rendered invisible, or which received limited attention by authors, publishers, and readers. By placing the five case studies and related texts within a broader history of experimentation in literature, this book demonstrates how multimodal novels have changed the conceptualization of narrative content in literary texts and ushered in a new era for fiction. Thomas Mantzaris is an affiliated researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His research interests include multimodal and experimental narratives, contemporary American and Anglophone fiction, printed books, and photography. Intermediality. 75933 Digital humanities. America Literatures. 66799 Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Books History. 66353 Intermediality. 75933 Digital Humanities. North American Literature. 66800 Contemporary Literature. 66702 History of the Book. 66357 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031688720 Printed edition: 9783031688744 Printed edition: 9783031688751 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68873-7 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 64474 64474